Quotes – December 29

 Let's see. Spend time writing about these quotes, or go for a run and a hike.

No competition.

Quotes

"One thing you may have noticed in the goals, is that they are more focused on routine and habits, than they are on outcomes." (cultivatedmanagement.com, Are You Chasing the Right Things? How to Paint a Picture for Your Life and Set Goals - Cultivated Management)

"foreign aid, even if given for purely humanitarian reasons, is political by nature precisely because it is not motivated by the search for profit." (Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism)

"(3) Human social systems are subject to the counterbalancing influences of hierarchy-enhancing (HE) forces, producing and maintaining ever higher levels of group-based social inequality, and hierarchy-attenuating (HA) forces, producing greater levels of group-based social equality." (Jim Sidanius and Felicia Pratto, Social Dominance)

"It is following these periods of crisis that institutions and the connections between them are most open to dramatic transformation." (Brian Walker PhD, Resilience Thinking)

"Her story — that of an uneducated, unskilled woman from farm roots who can’t find high-paying work in the city and falls deeper into poverty — is a familiar one, the classic pattern of in-country migration all around the world." (Abrahm Lustgarten, The Great Climate Migration Has Begun)

"There is a saying that the world is divided into people who think they are right." (Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance)

Systems Quotes

"One new area of investigation, for example, is how to understand and deal with multiple thresholds that occur at different scales in the ecological and social domains of linked systems, and which give rise to cascading regime shifts." (Brian Walker PhD, Resilience Thinking)

"The speed and magnitude of directional change, environmental and social, are now such that what is needed is continual transformational change in human-dominated systems." (Brian Walker, David Salt, Resilience Practice)

"In this sense, systems thinking is a disciplined approach for examining problems more completely and accurately before acting. It allows us to ask better questions before jumping to conclusions.

Systems thinking often involves moving from observing events or data, to identifying patterns of behavior overtime, to surfacing the underlying structures that drive those events and patterns. By understanding and changing structures that are not serving us well (including our mental models and perceptions), we can expand the choices available to us and create more satisfying, long-term solutions to chronic problems." (thesystemsthinker.com, Systems Thinking: What, Why, When, Where, and How? - The Systems Thinker)